FarseerBesides the meticulously sutured limbs, the twin face with all eyes sewn shut, and the dissected thorax, you notice the faint gleam of steel strips soldered into the creature's neck, hands, and shins. The strange energy they emit reminds you of the technology behind the psy-shackles used to restrain psykers in the Imperium.
YOU[Examine the creature]
YOU"Whoever you are, we have come for answers. Help us make sense of what happened to your world."
YOU"I know you are there, Artreus, Cassarthruin, Maedryl, Dharianne! Answer my call and the call of your sister!"
YOU[Use psyker powers to revive the Farseers]
Farseer"Caetan, you have returned from the darkness between the stars... alive..."
Farseer"We are heading into a battle in which we cannot afford to hesitate! It is time to act! Crudarach needs your protection!"
Farseer"I had only just embarked on the Path of the Farseer. I still had so much to do..."
Farseer"Aaaaghrrr!"
FarseerYou try to reach the Farseers' disorganised thoughts, but even sane Aeldari minds would be too much for your psyche to handle. You are drawn ever deeper into the vortex of foreign memories: a son, a battle, death, art, lives that spanned centuries... Pain. Pain. Pain. Pain. Everything is a blur. Which way is the past? Which way is the future? If there even is a future... which there isn't. The eyes, though closed, can see... She Who Thirsts sharpening her steel claws as she prepares to feast. No. No — nooo!
FarseerThe monster that was once four Farseers from the Aeldari craftworld is infuriated by your attempts to penetrate its distorted mind.
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YOU[Remove the creature's psy-suppression shackles]
FarseerYou incise the skin in a few places where pulsating metal is joined to disfigured bone. The creature seems to be ignorant of the pain. However, once the shackles pressing down on the flesh of its hands fall away, a long, many-voiced moan comes from the Farseers' throats. The temperature in the room drops sharply. A sudden cloud of vapour escapes your mouth.
Yrliet"Wait, elantach! Farseers have a great gift that protects our craftworlds from danger. But should they lose their self-control, that same gift can become a curse for those around them. This creature's— these unfortunates' souls can hardly be said to be at peace. Sadness rends my heart when I realise what the Haemonculus has done to my brothers and sisters... But these are not shackles we ought to remove."
YOU"I am not afraid of the consequences."
FarseerAs the last metal strip falls to the floor with a clang, it enrages the monster that was once four Farseers from the Aeldari craftworld.
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YOU"You are right. Let's not risk it."
YrlietYrliet nods gratefully.
YOU[Examine the creature]continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Whoever you are, we have come for answers. Help us make sense of what happened to your world."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"I know you are there, Artreus, Cassarthruin, Maedryl, Dharianne! Answer my call and the call of your sister!"continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Use psyker powers to revive the Farseers]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Remove the creature's psy-suppression shackles]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Kill the Farseers] "You should look away. I will put them out of their misery myself."
Yrliet"Wait, elantach!"
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YOU"These are your kin. You should decide what happens to them."
YrlietYrliet casts a hesitant gaze at the disfigured Farseers. "I cannot leave it — them — like this. The accursed Haemonculus has merged not just the bodies of my kin, but their souls as well. They are still inside, in agony — torn to pieces by memories, their own and others'! But I can sense the shadow of She Who Thirsts creeping ever closer, to devour them and erase them from this world forever. I cannot let that happen."
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YOU"Let's leave this creature alone."
YrlietYrliet casts a hesitant gaze at the disfigured Farseers. "I cannot leave it — them — like this. The accursed Haemonculus has merged not just the bodies of my kin, but their souls as well. They are still inside, in agony — torn to pieces by memories, their own and others'! But I can sense the shadow of She Who Thirsts creeping ever closer, to devour them and erase them from this world forever. I cannot let that happen."continues where this line first appears above
Farseer(sequence)
Heinrix"The xenos is right. Whatever these devices are, they are best left in place."
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FarseerAs the last metal strip falls to the floor with a clang, it enrages the monster that was once four Farseers from the Aeldari craftworld.continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Kill the Farseers] "You should look away. I will put them out of their misery myself."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"These are your kin. You should decide what happens to them."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Let's leave this creature alone."continues where this line first appears above
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Yrliet(no text)
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FarseerThe monstrosity takes its time as it turns its twin face, on which every eye has been sewn shut, toward you and slowly opens its female lips. A coarse Aeldari voice breaks the momentary silence. "What is this? A mon-keigh dares to speak to a Farseer?" A woman's whisper from male lips interrupts, "It hurts... it hurts..."
Farseer"Kill us! Please!" The young voice shouts out of both of the monstrosity's mouths, and you hear the three hearts beat faster in the creature's chest. "Daughter of Asuryan who has walked the Path of the Outcast... Mercccy, grant us... mercccy..."
Yrliet"I came here hoping to find answers to my questions. But what do I see? Only the pain and suffering of those I failed to save. Those I abandoned when they needed me..."
YOU"Your presence on Crudarach would hardly have changed anything. You would most likely be dead now."
Yrliet"You... cannot know that. No one can." Yrliet shakes her head in sadness and turns her gaze to the motionless monstrosity. "What... am I to do with them, elantach?"
YOU"You have been asked for mercy. Grant it."
YrlietYrliet winces, then draws her weapon with resolve. "You are right, elantach. After everything that happened, I have no right to leave them like this. The shadow of She Who Thirsts is creeping ever closer upon their already twisted souls, but I will not allow her to devour what is left of them."
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YOU[Kill the Farseers] "You should look away. I will put them out of their misery myself."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Nothing of your kin is left in this creature. End their suffering, Yrliet."
Yrliet"That... is not so. The accursed Haemonculus has merged not just the Farseers' bodies, but their souls as well. They are still inside... in agony. Torn to pieces by memories, their own and others'. But I can sense the shadow of She Who Thirsts creeping ever closer, to devour them and erase them from this world forever. I cannot let that happen."
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YOU"Let's leave this creature alone."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"You should have stayed on your homeworld and defended it to the end."
Yrliet"I walked my Path, as our teachings and customs demanded! I could not have known..." Yrliet abruptly falls silent, trying to contain her anger. "What... am I to do with them, elantach?"
YOU"You have been asked for mercy. Grant it."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Kill the Farseers] "You should look away. I will put them out of their misery myself."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Nothing of your kin is left in this creature. End their suffering, Yrliet."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Let's leave this creature alone."continues where this line first appears above
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FarseerFor a brief moment, the monster turns its twin face toward you, before turning away and muttering restlessly to itself again. Its eyes are sewn shut.
Yrliet"I came here hoping to find answers to my questions. But what do I see? Only the pain and suffering of those I failed to save. Those I abandoned when they needed me..."
YOU"Your presence on Crudarach would hardly have changed anything. You would most likely be dead now."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"You should have stayed on your homeworld and defended it to the end."continues where this line first appears above
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FarseerBesides the meticulously sutured limbs, the twin face with all eyes sewn shut, and the dissected thorax, you notice numerous needle marks all over the creature's body. The Farseer's wounds are bleeding an acrid, faintly glowing ooze instead of regular blood. The creature seems to be unaware of it — and, indeed, of your presence.
YOU[Examine the creature]continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Whoever you are, we have come for answers. Help us make sense of what happened to your world."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"I know you are there, Artreus, Cassarthruin, Maedryl, Dharianne! Answer my call and the call of your sister!"continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Use psyker powers to revive the Farseers]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Remove the creature's psy-suppression shackles]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Kill the Farseers] "You should look away. I will put them out of their misery myself."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"These are your kin. You should decide what happens to them."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Let's leave this creature alone."continues where this line first appears above
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Idira(no text)
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Entry point 8 of 10
Farseer(no text)
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Yrliet(no text)
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Farseer"Caetan... Caetaaan, my son..." The Aeldari Farseer's tortured body is barely moving. You have seen abject creatures like this before: stitched together from several bodies, their miserable existence serves but to satisfy their Haemonculus master's morbid interest in perversions of the flesh. And yet... this one is not like the others. A twin face stitched together from parts of several male and female Aeldari turns its unseeing gaze toward you. Its eyes have been crudely sewn shut.
Farseer"You have come, my son..." A woman's ghostly whisper escapes the cut-up lips oozing blood and pus. "Hold the line! Don't let the corruption spread further!" A commanding shout comes, with a cough, from inside the ripped-open thorax where three hearts are beating inside a single ribcage, as in a prison of bone. "I've finished the statue, master." A fleeting satisfied expression passes over the stitched face as a suave young voice interrupts the warlike shouting. "We are all united in the sh-shadow of the great tree, s-sister. Until Kaela Mensh-sha Kh-Khaine claims our hearts." Your Elucidator discerns yet another voice, soft and profound.
Yrliet"O Isha, Mother of all life, may your blessing protect the Children of Asuryan from the abominations of bodily and spiritual torture..." The Aeldari's hand twitches as she reaches for her weapon.
YOU"What... are you?"
Farseer"Forgive me, Caetan. Ever since the founding of our craftworld, I took upon myself the duty of caring for Crudarach's children, yet my own son... Oh, my Caetan, why did your Path have to take you so far from home..."
Farseer"Today Khaine bloodied his hands again — with our blood and others'! You must learn to accept your fears, to tame your anger..."
FarseerThe ebullient youthful laughter sounds entirely out of place in this dark place: "Laenartha, my love, I dedicate my last statue to you! Don't cry. My Path of the Sculptor may be at its end, but I have a different path ahead of me. Will you walk it with me?"
Farseer"Today we mourn those we've losst, our sssons and daughters and brothers and sssisters and parents and lovers whose sssouls the wind took..."
Yrliet"I doubt they can hear you. The Haemonculus's experiments... have twisted more than their bodies. Their minds and souls have been remoulded into something... wrong. All of this is wrong. It must not be!" The Aeldari's usually calm voice is trembling, either with anger or with fear.
YOU[Examine the creature]continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Whoever you are, we have come for answers. Help us make sense of what happened to your world."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"I know you are there, Artreus, Cassarthruin, Maedryl, Dharianne! Answer my call and the call of your sister!"continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Use psyker powers to revive the Farseers]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Remove the creature's psy-suppression shackles]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Kill the Farseers] "You should look away. I will put them out of their misery myself."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"These are your kin. You should decide what happens to them."continues where this line first appears above
YOU"Let's leave this creature alone."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Wound the monster] "You're a sight! Let's see how you like this."